Arts & Sciences
Appreciation
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Arts & Sciences
To the sea-shell's spiral round
'Tis your heart that brings the sound:
The soft sea-murmurs that you hear
Within, are captured from your ear.
You do poets and their song
A grievous wrong,
If your own soul does not bring
To their high imagining
As much beauty as they sing.
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. “Appreciation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/aldrich_tb/14/.
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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. “Appreciation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/aldrich_tb/14/.
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